Pneumothorax associated with α1-antitrypsin deficiency

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 387-388

  Kanazawa, Shigenori ^a   Kinoshita, Yoshimi ^b   Nakagawa, Yuki ^a   Akai, Miku ^a   Ookura, Mari ^a   Uemura, Shinobu ^a   Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki ^a   Nomura, Shosaku ^c  

^a Tesseikai Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

^b KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KISHIWADA CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

1 antitrypsin; Dyspnea; Non smoker; Null type; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; ALPHA GLOBULIN;

ADULT; ALPHA ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMPHYSEMA; EXON; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; JAPANESE; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOTHORAX; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; BLOOD; GENETICS; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 66149189573     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.1759     Document Type: Article

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